Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-05-13

anu IL lOOlHluI, We sdHl lucIt Is IL INV yer
or merchant. But when we see II man
with u carriage and two footmen, we say
that is a member of the royal family So
we have the two footmen of goodness and
| mercy following us all the days of our
| life. And we shall be at home with the
| Lord forever.
In the evening the doctor gave another
| clear and forcible discourse from Numbers
xXiii-10. Let me die the death of the
righteous and let my last end be like his.
BALKAN had been requested to curse Gods
people. God refused TO let him go. But
when BALKAN persisted, God permitted
him to 20 as He generally allows men to
do as they please.
But the spirit of God took possession of
him and when he attempted to curse
them he blessed them, and expressed his
desire in the words OF the text. But
man will die as he lives. If he wishes to
die the death of the RICH eous he must
live the life of the righteous.
What Is the righteousness of Scripture
| 1t is not living an honest and benevolent
| life. Our benevoence may be but selfish
ness.
Nor is it living as we think is right. A
man may feel justified in harming his
neighbours buildings but that does not
satisfy the law.
Nor is it living the life of a Pharisee.
Men who boast of their goodness may be
very religious and very rotten.
Nor is it doing just right. The law re
| quires MS to love God with all our might,
mind and strength and our neighbor us
ourself But there is no man but what
| comes short The man who takes this as
! his law is adopting a rule which will cut
his head off. We can not adopt conscience
as IA safe guide. Like our watch some
times it will run slow.
The righteousness of God is seen in
Jesus Christ. No man can be justified
| by the deeds of the law.
The rule in recruiting our cavalry regi-
ment in Kentucky for the Union service
was that every man should be five feet
and 10 inches in height. a man may say,
81 am as tall as you are" but that was of
no avail if he did not come up to the law.
So it is of no avail for men to say am as
good as many Christians are. If they do
not have the righteousness of Christ they
will not be accepted of God. Now Christ
lived a righteous life and died the right
eous for the unrighteous. And the prln-
ciple of the atonement runs all through
our lives If | endorse note for a neigh
Dor and he can not pay it, pay it for him.
In police court in New York ii man was
sentenced to pay a fine of $40 or 80 days
on the island He SAID he had not the
money and he could not leave his family
for that time. But the law was lneXora-
bic. But man stepped up and paid the
| fine and the Judge accepted it. We can
not say that this Is not all right morally.
Nor can we say that God had not right
to save men as he does by the righteous
ness of Christ.
Righteousness in Christ consists in two
things, satisfying the demands of the law
and transferring Christ's righteousness to
us by the Holy Spirit. We ale all sinners
and cannot save ourselves Christians
are in the hands of physician while un
| believers are without one. Christians
will recover from their illness while 9TH
ers will not. Are you ready to die If
! Christ should come tonight would you
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to appear before the great white throne
without the robe of Christ's righteous.
ness BY Christ's righteousness | am
ready.
DR.. Pentecost gave an earnest talk in
the ALTAR meeting upon taking Christ
at his word and six responded.
FOURTH DAY.
Thursday afternoon DIR. Pentecost dis
coursed on the parable of the sower. The
parallels give panoramic view of Gods
Kingdom. The parable of the sower in
dlcates the opposition of the human heart.
The mustard seed and leaven are the evils
which grow to great proportions in the
church. All sorts of worldly things come
into the church. All sorts of evils come
into the church, which destroy the spir-
| itual life.
All Christians should be sewers. At
Antioch the first Christian church was
founded by laymen. The seed is the word
of God.
The outside of the seed is necessary and
so Is the letter of the word. Mystics who
| ignore the word and wait simply for the
spirit to speak to them are wrong, and so
are the persons who hold to doctrine
simply without the spirit Both the spirit
and the word are necessary. Again the
life Is in the seed and not in the soil. The
farmer r,Ii, who cuitiyates the soil without
sowing any seed will not raise crop.
And men cannot develop from their own
natures all that God demands. Seed in
the soil will produce commotion. The
automatous at the centennial were mis-
taken for persons, but they had no life
and could not manifest it. And when life
exists it can not be suppressed. Lastly
every seed brings forth according to its
kind.
Thursday evening DR.. Penteeost con-
tlnued his sermon of the previous evening
on the words of Balaam, Numbers xiii.
10: LET me- die the death of the righteous,
and let my last end be like his" Speaking
OF the privileges and characteristics of the
righteous man he said:
First. He is man Of faith. We learn
by the 18th chapter of Hebrews that faith
makes unseen things real and substantial
touS.
Second. The righteous man is a man of
prayer. Prayer is the habit of his life. 1t
Is not saying prayers continually but
/. being in prayerful spirit
Third. lie is thankful man. 1t is not
a Pharasaical gratitude. But that of
John Bunyan, who thanked the Lord as
he opened his eyes that he could see the
sun OF righteousness. When he arose
from the bed that he had been raised
,, from the death of sin. When he washed
his face from the washing of regenera-
ton. And when he put on his clothes he
thanked God for being clothed in Christ's
righteousness. When he drank a glass of
water he thanked God for the water of
life and when he ate his breakfast he
praised God for the bread of life. The
r eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous
as the mothers eye is upon her child, and
, Gods ear is open to their cry. AS the
parent has to say "no" sometimes, sc
t does our heavenly Father. And there is
as much love in Gods mo" as in His
: yes" Say we unto the righteous that il
: shall be we'll with them, but how differ
ent with the wicked.
o At the After Meeting" the Doctor
t spoke in an interesting way of becoming
tEft ri.